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Education

More than Lore Reminiscences of Marion Talbot

Talbot Marion

ISBN: HB: 9780226316703, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
160 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 18 halftones, 1 table

The founding articles of the University of Chicago contained what was for the era a shocking declaration: "To provide, impart, and furnish opportunities for all departments of higher education to persons of both sexes on equal terms". In a time when...

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America

Political Science

Democratic Surround Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

Turner Fred

ISBN: PB: 9780226325897, ISBN: HB: 9780226817460, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in "The Democrat...

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Middle East

Pakistan A New History

Talbot Ian

ISBN: PB: 9781849043700, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! If Pakistan is to preserve all that is good about its country – the generosity and hospitality of its people, the dynamism of its youth – it must face the deterioration of its social and political institutions. Sidestepping eas...

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America

Pox of Liberty How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection

Troesken Werner

ISBN: HB: 9780226922171, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 7 tables

The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world. But that wealth hasn't translated to a higher life expectancy, an area where the United States still ranks thirty-eighth – behind Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and Greece, among many others....

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Political Science

Africa

Eye of the Needle Towards Participatory Democracy in South Africa

Turner Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780857422378, Seagull Books, May 2015
224 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Described by Nelson Mandela as a source of inspiration, Richard Turner was a central figure in the white South African student movement and key in its radicalization. Turner acquired his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was inspired by th...

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America

I Speak of the City Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Tenorio-Trillo Mauricio

ISBN: PB: 9780226273587, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 77 halftones

In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today. Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, "I Speak of the City" c...

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Political Science

America

Different Democracy American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

Taylor Steven L., Shugart Matthew Soberg, Lijphart Arend, Grofman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780300198089, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democra...

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America

Crisis of the Wasteful Nation Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America

Tyrrell Ian

ISBN: HB: 9780226197760, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones

Long before people were "going green" and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as...

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Asia

Into the Kazakh Steppe John Castle's Mission to Khan Abulkhayir (1736)

Teissier Beatrice

ISBN: PB: 9781909930087, Signal Books, December 2014
208 pp., 21.8x14 cm

For sale in CIS only! The adventurer and artist John Castle, of mixed British and Prussian descent, was one of several foreigners commissioned by the Russian Empire to take part in the Orenburg Expedition which started in 1734. Its aims were to secu...

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Europe

Men from the Ministry How Britain Saved Its Heritage

Thurley Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780300205244, ISBN: HB: 9780300195729, Yale University Press, September 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Of course, collections of paintings, sculptures,...

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